houseboat
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houseboats
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Nenna, an unemployed 32-year-old musician, lives in a leaky houseboat with her two young daughters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
In May, the Green Party admitted Polanski may have failed to pay council tax on the houseboat, which was his home until recently.
From BBC ● Jul. 5, 2026
Matt Gibson, 52, moors his sage-green houseboat, bedecked with plants, on the Regent's Canal near central London.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
Living on a houseboat comes with its own rituals; these largely keep Kaslow occupied.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 17, 2025
The Tuscan River was a huge river—big enough for houseboat rental companies to flourish.
From "Earthquake Terror" by Peg Kehret
Our solution was to use one of the Kariba houseboats as a mobile hotel and laboratory, so that we could prospect the shoreline.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
Wreckage from the 1906 earthquake was used to build the first “arks,” houseboats in Sausalito, providing a quirky infrastructure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
After declining in use, "a restoration movement came about in the '60s" and people began to live on canal houseboats, Clarke said.
From Barron's ● Feb. 11, 2026
But these are typically clusters of houseboats moored close to one another.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2024
Tied up along its shores was every conceivable kind of watercraft— Chinese junks, tugboats, rickety houseboats, old schooners, and barges heaped with jumbles of industrial cargo.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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